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Steering Committee

Chung Ng
SVP (Technology, Strategy, and Development)
PCCW-HKT Group

Dr. Chung Ng is responsible for leading the group’s product and technology roadmap and strategic development. Before PCCW-HKT, Chung contributed to the Big Data/AI strategy at Telstra as well as its international growth strategy. Prior to Telstra, Chung was an Associate Partner of Cluster Technology Limited which serves the Greater China market with professional services and solutions in high-performance computing, machine learning, big data, and public cloud.

In 2008, Chung joined McKinsey & Company in the Hong Kong office. He received his DPhil in Information Engineering from the University of Oxford and held the Croucher Foundation Scholarship to work toward his research degree in wireless ad-hoc networks. Chung also received BEng and MPhil in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Osamu Kamimura
Vice President and
Head of Spectrum Policy Office
SoftBank

Mr. Osamu Kamimura is Vice President and Head of Spectrum Policy Office at SoftBank Corp. and is responsible for international standardization and domestic regulatory activities relating to SoftBank's mobile telecommunications business. 


He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile telecommunications industry. Based on his knowledge obtained through his experience in several mobile operation companies, he has played a key role in various activities such as the development of ITU-R Recommendations and domestic regulations for "AXGP", which is a mobile telecommunications system based on next generation PHS, enhanced to incorporate LTE technology. 

John Saw
Group CTO
T-Mobile US

John Saw, Ph.D., is the Group CTO of T-Mobile US, where he and his team of brilliant technologists are constantly looking for new and innovative ways to disrupt wireless and bring a little joy to customers’ lives.


John was previously the chief technology officer at Sprint, where he transformed its network performance and oversaw the company’s 5G rollout. John was also the chief technology officer at Clearwire before the company was acquired by Sprint in 2013. Long recognized as a pioneer in the 2.5 GHz band, he’s led the development of the 2.5 GHz bandone of the most valuable mid-band spectrums in the U.S. and one of the largest ecosystems in the world. John has also held senior leadership roles developing and deploying wireless technologies at AT&T Wireless, Bell Northern Research, Netro Corp., and Nortel.

Luke Ibbetson
Director of Strategy and R&D Organization
Vodafone Group

Mr. Luke Ibbetson has been with Vodafone since 1996 and currently heads the Vodafone Group Strategy and R&D organisation, responsible for all aspects of network research and strategy including Vodafone’s participation in international standards & industry alliances, definition of the architectural blueprint for future networks, trials of emerging / disruptive technologies and concepts and long term spectrum planning. Luke is leading Vodafone's 5G programme, Chairs the NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks alliance) 5G Requirements and Architecture work, and is Vice Chair of the NGMN 5G “Board Committee” charged with overseeing the entire 5G programme. Luke is also a proud pioneer of Narrow Band IoT technology for Low Power Wide Area networks, and is Chairman of the GSMA’s NB-IoT Forum.

Wing K. Lee
CEO
YTL Communications

As CEO of YTL Communications, Mr. Wing K. Lee and his team built Malaysia’s largest all-4G; all-IP network. In 2021, they achieved another milestone of being the first to launch 5G nationwide.


Prior to YTL, Wing spent over 17 years in the United States in leadership positions to build the first nationwide fiber optics network, the first nationwide wireless data network, and the first commercial 4G network.


Awarded “Asian American Engineer of the Year” in the 2002 US National Engineers Week, Wing also holds 33 US Patents in addition to Singaporean and Korean patents.He attended the University of Texas at Austin and MIT.

Magnus Ewerbring
CTO, Asia-Pacific
Ericsson

As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Asia-Pacific, Magnus Ewerbring is responsible for driving technology alignment as well as long term technology strategies for Ericsson in Asia-Pacific.


Magnus has been with Ericsson for more than 30 yearshas held several senior executive positions within Ericsson R&D, the Business Units, as well as in customer accounts.


Magnus holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden)a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y., USA).

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